 Nor second he that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy, The secrets of th' abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but, blasted with excess...  The Poetry of Life - Page 319by Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835Full view - About this book
 | William Pitt - 1804 - 330 pages
...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...gaze, HE saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the op6av«»... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...Abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time : The living Throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light. Closed hia eyes in endless night. Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car Wide o'er the fields... | |
 | English essays - 1810 - 286 pages
...Abyss to spy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time. The living threne, the sapphire-blaze, Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night."* Again, in Spencer's legend of Holiness, after the Knight of the... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 pages
...of Ecstacy, He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw: BUT, BLASTED WITH EXCESS OF LIGHT, CLOSED HIS EYES IN ENDLESS NIGHT. GRAY'S Prog, of Poesy. DEMODOCUS of sight, and to have given him... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...kind of shade upon most of the other works of man-— He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze. Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw,—but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd bis eyes hi endless night. But it was the light of... | |
 | Thomas James Mathias - Pastoral poetry, English - 1815 - 190 pages
...calls forth and adapts the expressions of that prophet, and with more than mortal rapture, exclaims, " The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...gaze, HE saw : but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." Surely the simple allusion to the loss of sight in Homer (the op9aty«n... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1813 - 496 pages
...scrnph-wings of ccstacy, The eccreti of ill' abyss to spy ; He pa»'d the flaming bounds of place and time, The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...gaze; He saw— but blasted with excess of light, C'Josuil bin eyes in endless uighi. Miss Eve. How would you describe the talents of our best actor,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...kind of shade upon all the after-works of man : ' He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time — The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...they gaze ; He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished : the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...kind of shade upon all the after-works of man-: ' He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time— The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels...they gaze; He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.' But it was the light of the body only, that was extinguished: the... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...failure, from an enterprise surpassing mortal power, Hut he did more than ever has been done by man. " The living throne — the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw — and, blasted with excess of lipht, Closed his eyes in endless night." There is an offence which... | |
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